Recommendations for external IDE storage

[Jason Joines]

     We had an external raid for IDE drives that connected to a server 
via SCSI.  The array was used for storing 100s of CDs of data so the 
users didn't have to go around hunting and trading CDs. It was very 
expensive and is now dead.  The drives however are still good.

     We have a very limited budget but woulld like to get the drives 
back into use.  I have a USB 2 card with 4 ports.  I would like to get 
these four 160 GB drives into a 640 GB linux software raid-0.

     Does anyone know of a four drive external case that will connect 
via USB?  If not, will plugging in 4 separate 1-drive USB cases and 
raiding them togethere work?  Would firewire be better?  The server 
itself is a Dell 2450 with SuSE Linux 8.0 and kernel 2.4.18.

     Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Jason Joines
Open Source = Open Mind
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